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Unintended consequences of disk to disk back up. Recently a number of our clients have been told that they can’t get any more power into their data centers. After asking some questions, I found that a number of them have … Continue reading →

NetApp and HP are after the same market segment. The SMB market.Hewlett-Packard has a major crush on the small and medium-sized business market and has announced a new model in its All-in-One Storage line and shuffled some executives to help … Continue reading →

Has IBM tired of dancing with NetApp? I have always thought it strange that IBM would be a reseller of NetApp equipment, making very marginal rates of return for its stockholders. It just makes more business sense for IBM to … Continue reading →

Every company goes through its ups and downs, according to this report it looks like NetApp SAN solutions may be in for a rough ride. Only time will tell.“It appears that NetApp’s move into the SAN market is meeting some … Continue reading →

Does $50,000.00 a TB sound expensive to you? NetApp’s newest software costs that much.ReplicatorX is available now for $50,000 per Tbyte of replicated data. Let’s do some simple math on a typical small NetApp system which has 10TB on it … Continue reading →

If you think the Enterprise Storage business is nuts, just try to figure out Congress. From Economist: Dubai Aerospace agreed to buy two aircraft-maintenance companies in North America, one in Canada, the other in Arizona, from Carlyle Group for $1.8 … Continue reading →

The strange world of enterprise storage Something weird is going on here,” said Arun Taneja, founder and analyst with the Taneja Group, who said he’d been working with NeoPath since the company’s inception and had not been aware of the … Continue reading →

How will a trade war with Asia affect your storage infrastructure? 1) Most of the components in enterprise storage systems are made in Asia.2) Most of the assemblies in your storage infrastructure are made in Asia.3) A lot of software … Continue reading →

What will your storage network look like in three years?Brocade has some ideas that may change the cabling and wiring of yourstorage infrastructure.April 01, 2007 (Network World) — Brocade Communications Inc. this week announced plans to incorporate 10Gbit/sec Ethernet and … Continue reading →

Dell is caught in an accounting scandal Is it possible for public companies to comply with all of the rules of the stock exchanges and Sarbanes Oxley any more?An internal investigation into Dell’s accounts has uncovered “evidence of misconduct” and … Continue reading →